by Archdiocese of Oaxaca
Thursday, Nov. 02, 2006 at 10:21 AM
Yesterday, the city of Oaxaca was taken by an enormous force of some 5,000 troops of the Federal Preventive Police and the result has been disastrous:
Stop the Repression
Vicente Fox Quezada
President of the Mexican Republic
Mexico City, Mexico, D.F
three of our citizens were killed; about 30 have been illegally detained; there is an undetermined number of disappeared people; private homes invaded without legal warrants issued; riot tanks firing acid water on our citizens; helicopters have dropped teargas on the people of Oaxaca which has resisted peacefully but also tenaciously in practically every part of the city of Oaxaca and also in other locations throughout our State.
We give testimony to the inexcusable gap between the promise of a police operation which supposedly was to provide protection to our population and the actual and terrible events which actually occurred. Because of this, in God’s name and in the name of our people victims of long term acts of aggression and suffering at the hands of authoritarian and corrupt powers, we implore: Stop the Repression. There is no moral or ethical justification for these acts, and even less, religious legitimacy in horrible actions brought against us. God’s law, “You shall not Kill”, supercedes any human law directing another to kill.
We would like to point out that in these actions, the Federal government institutions laying the foundations for grassroots resistance social movements of greater magnitude not only in the State of Oaxaca, but also in other parts of the country.
Sincerely,
Atentamente:
ARQUIDIOCESIS DE OAXACA
Pbro. Manuel Arias Montes
Parroquia de Juquilita
Coordinador del Consejo Presbiteral
Pbro. José Rentaría Pérez
Párroco de San Bartolo Coyotepec
Pbro. Leoncio Hernández Guzmán
Párroco de Santiago Apoala
Pbro. Edmundo Santiago Yescas
Párroco del Corazón Eucarístico de Jesús
Pbro. Carlos Franco Pérez Méndez
Párroco de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles
Pbro. Juan A. Hernández Romero
Párroco de S. Miguel Panixtlahuaca
Pbro. Jorge Pérez García
Párroco de San Pablo Huitzo
Pbro. Gil Antonio Torres Varela
Párroco de San Pablo Mitla
Pbro. Fernando Cruz Montes
Párroco de San Sebastián Tutla
Pbro. Juan Antonio Jiménez Gómez
Párroco de Santa Catarina Juquila
Pbro. Armando S. Fabián Vicente
Vicario de Santa Catarina Juquila
Pbro. Aureliano Díaz Jiménez
Vicario de Santa Catarina Juquila
Pbro Emeterio López Sánchez
Párroco de Santo Domingo Teojomulco
Pbro. Guillermo Velásquez Gordillo
Párroco de San Miguel Sola de Vega
Secretario del Consejo Presbiteral
Pbro. Sergio Herrera Arias
Párroco de San Pedro y San Pablo Teposcolula
Pbro. José Luis Palmerín Zamora
Vicario de Santa Cruz Zenzontepec
Pbro. Raúl Morales Tapia
Cuasi Párroco de Santiago Textitlán
Pbro. Eduardo Godínez Contreras
Párroco de Santa María Tlaxiaco
Pbro. Hugo Pedro Aguilar
Párroco de San Andrés Chicahuaxtla
Pbro. Guadalupe B. García García
Párroco de Santa Cruz Itundujia
Pbro. Gregorio Cruz González
Párroco de San Mateo Peñasco y San Miguel Achiutla
Pbro. Martín Octavio García Ortiz
Párroco de San Ildefonso Villa Alta
Pbro. Miguel Ángel Morelos García
Párroco de San Cruz Xoxocotlán
Pbro. Juan Loera Pineda
Párroco de San Martín de Porres Indeco
Pbro. Juan Ruiz Carreño
Párroco de Santa María Zaachila
Pbro. José González González SJ.
Pbro. Bernardo Murcio Velasco SJ.
Pbro. Jorge Villa Aguinaga SJ.
Templo de la Compañía de Jesús
Pbro. Francisco Silencio Cruz
Párroco de San Dionisio Ocotepec
DIOCESIS DE PUERTO ESCONDIDO
Pbro. Guillermo García Díaz
Párroco de Puerto Escondido
Pbro. Pedro Loyola San Juan
Párroco de Río Grande, Juquila,
Vicario Episcopal de Pastoral
Pbro. Hermilo Cuevas Fabián
Párroco de San Pedro Tututepec
Pbro. Herminio Olmedo Peña
Párroco de San Juan Bautista Cacahuatepec
Pbro. Héctor A. Santiago Pacheco
Párroco de San Pedro Amusgos
Pbro. Armando Muñoz Jarquín
Párroco de Sta. Ma. de la Asunción y del Sr. de la Ascensión, Tataltepec
Pbro. Rufino Jiménez Quiroz
Párroco de Santo Reyes Nopala
Pbro. Fidel Zurita García
Párroco de San Agustín Loxicha
Pbro. Arturo Nicolás Vázquez
Párroco de Sta. María Huazolotitlán
Pbro. Jaime Meneses Lavariega
Párroco de San Francisco Tonameca
PRELATURA DE HUAUTLA DE JIMENEZ
Pbro. José Luis Sánchez García
Vicario Episcopal de Pastoral
Pbro. Víctor V. Villalobos Baltasar
Cuasi Párroco de Sta. María Teopoxco
Pbro. Jorge Juan Pastor Salvador
Coordinador de la Comisión de Pastoral Social
Pbro. Adán Carrasco Ambrosio
Rector del Seminario Menor Tonantzin Guadalupe
DIOCESIS DE TEHUANTEPEC
Pbro. Ranulfo Pacheco López
Párroco de Matías Romero
Pbro. Herminio Guerrero
Párroco de Tequisistlán
Pbro. Lucio Santiago
Párroco de S. José Obrero Salina Cruz
Pbro. Juan Ignacio Ortega
San Isidro Col Cuauhtemoc
Pbro. Víctor Cabrera
Párroco de Santa María Guienagati
Pbro. Lino Tenorio Cayetano
San Francisco Ixhuatán
Pbro. Francisco Ruiz Ramírez
Pbro. Roberto Raigosa Beltrán
Parroquia de Palomares.